When the three other senior class officers charged with picking a University of Wisconsin commencement speaker told Gestina Sewell they wanted ESPN personality Scott Van Pelt, the history major and self-professed “film geek” had just one question:
Who?
“I had to be educated on who this guy was,” acknowledged Sewell, the senior class president. “I’m not exactly a sports person, but all three of my fellow officers are. And they were excited about the guy.”